Naomi Ballantyne

Managing Director

Bio – Naomi Ballantyne
• 41 years experience in the New Zealand Life Insurance Industry
• Was the founding employee and Chief Operating Officer of Sovereign (now known as AIA)
• Founder of Club Life in 2001 (now known as Chubb)
• Founder and Managing Director of Partners Life since 2010. Partners Life has nearly completed 12 business years and is currently the second largest Life Insurer in New Zealand behind only AIA.
• Naomi is most likely the only women in the world to have started and built the three largest competitor companies in any one market.
• Having recently completed the transaction for the acquisition of Partners Life by Global Giant Life Insurer Dai-ichi Life, Naomi is also possibly the first women founder in NZ to have sold her start-up business for over $1b.
• As the single longest serving Chief Executive in the New Zealand Life Insurance market, the outcomes of her work over the past 41 years are evident for all to see – as she puts it, her successes and mistakes are there for all to see. To have so many independent advisers and industry expert employees decide to become part of the Partners Life story since day one, indicates the significant respect she has garnered over those years.
• Naomi is an inductee in the Company of Women Female Entrepreneur Hall of Fame, is the recipient of the ANZIIF Lifetime achievement award for her services to the New Zealand life insurance market, was appointed as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2017 New Year’s honours list and has recently been named in the Forbes 50 over 50 Asia Female Entrepreneurs list.
• Naomi is also a sought after key note speaker who gives freely and willingly of her time to tell the story of her journey and the lessons she has learned, including the mistakes she has made. She has motivated and inspired audiences across New Zealand from all walks of life and is passionate about helping others to follow their own dreams.
• Over her lifetime in the Industry Naomi has created careers for many hundreds of New Zealanders, created business opportunities for many thousands of New Zealand and international businesses, created hundreds of millions of dollars of returns for shareholders, and financially supported hundreds of thousands of New Zealand clients when health issues interrupted their lifestyles.